So it has taken 200 yrs to decrease two miles; I’d like to know what the government’s excuse is for the ice age.
Did the dinosaurs drive cars and heat their caves with coal?
The glaciers have been retreating for 150 years. Might that not suggest AGW has nothing to do with the melting–that they think might be happening, but might not be?
Glaciers are composed of melting snow. Might not variances in the amount of snowfall be a prime factor–particularly in light of the fact that some nearby glaciers are advancing?
These are questions the authors might have asked the “concerned” clowns who are promoting this blarney.
Record snowfalls and colder than normal winters- climate change?
No, it’s probably the El Nino weather pattern and the fact that we have entered the decreasing part of the sunspot cycle. Less sunspots means less energy reaches the earth and thus lower temperatures. While Al Gore was preaching global warming, we were conveniently (ha!) in a sunspot increasing cycle with higher than average numbers of sunspots.
The “mini-ice age” that occured several hundred years ago strongly correlates to a period of markedly diminished sunspots compared to a normal cycle.
Is man changing the environment- certainly, but our impact is nowhere close to that of natural cycles such as the sunspot cycle.
I don’t enjoy polluted streams or dirty air, so I’d like to keep things nice around here; but let’s not get too crazy with the climate change stuff.
I love reading the comments posted on here anytime there is an article related to Global Warming. No matter what the cause, or your political affiliation, if this is actually occurring… Watch Out. Maybe it is a part of the natural cycle of things, but maybe not. I read a lot of scientific journals and all the data does point towards warming temps and melting glaciers. The data shows that all glaciers, except for Antarctica, will have melted by 2050. If/when that happens, most of Florida is under water along with a lot of major coastal cities. Ironically, higher temps mean more drought too. I wish people would stop listening to all of the news outlets and rhetoric, look at the actual data collected on this issue, and try and glean an outcome from their own analysis. With that said, most people can’t convert a fraction to a decimal and vice versa so I know this is asking a lot of our uneducated/ill-informed society. Hopefully our species will be able to survive a less than peachy future. This may be a good thing though as only the strongest survive and may strengthen the gene pool. A silver lining?
Insurance Guy–OK, we’re uninformed dullards–and you are a well informed reader of scientific journals, who is certain/uncertain that all glaciers will be melted by 2050, and is capable of converiting a fraction into a decimal–and back again. I will hop on board and buy and ark, but not until you cite your scientific sources. Please be aware that viewing The Inconvenient Truth mulitple times does not ring the bell.
A recent study has identified and confirmed the major cause of global warming. Hot air started emanating from Wahington, DC in January, 2001, and has increased the average temperature on the eastern seaboard by 1.7 degrees since then. This cloud of warm air has not dissipated, and now covers most of the lower 48 states.
So it has taken 200 yrs to decrease two miles; I’d like to know what the government’s excuse is for the ice age.
Did the dinosaurs drive cars and heat their caves with coal?
The glaciers have been retreating for 150 years. Might that not suggest AGW has nothing to do with the melting–that they think might be happening, but might not be?
Glaciers are composed of melting snow. Might not variances in the amount of snowfall be a prime factor–particularly in light of the fact that some nearby glaciers are advancing?
These are questions the authors might have asked the “concerned” clowns who are promoting this blarney.
Record snowfalls and colder than normal winters- climate change?
No, it’s probably the El Nino weather pattern and the fact that we have entered the decreasing part of the sunspot cycle. Less sunspots means less energy reaches the earth and thus lower temperatures. While Al Gore was preaching global warming, we were conveniently (ha!) in a sunspot increasing cycle with higher than average numbers of sunspots.
The “mini-ice age” that occured several hundred years ago strongly correlates to a period of markedly diminished sunspots compared to a normal cycle.
Is man changing the environment- certainly, but our impact is nowhere close to that of natural cycles such as the sunspot cycle.
I don’t enjoy polluted streams or dirty air, so I’d like to keep things nice around here; but let’s not get too crazy with the climate change stuff.
I love reading the comments posted on here anytime there is an article related to Global Warming. No matter what the cause, or your political affiliation, if this is actually occurring… Watch Out. Maybe it is a part of the natural cycle of things, but maybe not. I read a lot of scientific journals and all the data does point towards warming temps and melting glaciers. The data shows that all glaciers, except for Antarctica, will have melted by 2050. If/when that happens, most of Florida is under water along with a lot of major coastal cities. Ironically, higher temps mean more drought too. I wish people would stop listening to all of the news outlets and rhetoric, look at the actual data collected on this issue, and try and glean an outcome from their own analysis. With that said, most people can’t convert a fraction to a decimal and vice versa so I know this is asking a lot of our uneducated/ill-informed society. Hopefully our species will be able to survive a less than peachy future. This may be a good thing though as only the strongest survive and may strengthen the gene pool. A silver lining?
Insurance Guy–OK, we’re uninformed dullards–and you are a well informed reader of scientific journals, who is certain/uncertain that all glaciers will be melted by 2050, and is capable of converiting a fraction into a decimal–and back again. I will hop on board and buy and ark, but not until you cite your scientific sources. Please be aware that viewing The Inconvenient Truth mulitple times does not ring the bell.
A recent study has identified and confirmed the major cause of global warming. Hot air started emanating from Wahington, DC in January, 2001, and has increased the average temperature on the eastern seaboard by 1.7 degrees since then. This cloud of warm air has not dissipated, and now covers most of the lower 48 states.
Sorry Pianoman, you forgot about the cloud of eminations from the bloated goat in Tennessee, if that’s where algore is hiding.